Thread by @MollyMcKew

Let me say this a dozen different ways, I guess:

The century where everybody took turns negotiating away the futures of the people living between Russia and Germany/W Europe didn’t go so hot.

Don’t be one of the people trying to reboot it into “pragmatism” when it is monstrous.

If you argue for equal rights and freedoms and opportunities for every American, you should be able to support the same for other in other nations fighting for it.

Literally fighting for it — and to protect us and what we have, over here across this big safe ocean.

If you want to know why Ukraine has earned the right to seek to be in NATO and to have that door open when they come — study the Holodomor, when Stalin starved Ukraine as a tool of internal control, and millions died.

Study what happened to Ukraine during all the years of Stalinist repression, and during WWII, and after.

Study what Russia is doing to Ukraine now. Not just the war. All the rest.

We owe them the chance. We owe them that damned open door when they got to it through decades of blood and suffering.

It may seem “wise” to leave countries outside the wall — and up for grabs by merciless adversaries.

Actually all it is doing is abandoning them again to repression and suffering, having their identity and history erased.

Every time some “wise” American mutters something about Russian interests and Ukraine not *really* being a country, they are nodding to the narrative fruits of Stalinist terror.

Or did everyone forget already how Putin joked about Ukrainians being cannibals?

Let them fight for their future, and when countries turn to the West, let them find we aren’t the ones who have put an iron curtain in place.